Addenda to the Draft Decree onThe Requisition of Articles of Warm Clothing for the Soldiers at the Front

Written:Written in November, prior to 8th (21st), 1917Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXI.

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Thefollowing to be added:

Heading:+… and on the requisition of flats of the rich to
relieve the needs of the poor ….

§ 1. ...plusone article of warm clothing in addition to a
blanket (overcoat, winter coat, jacket, felt boots, etc.).

§ 2. …Theterm rich flat applies to any flat in which the
number of rooms equals or exceeds the number of permanent occupants.

Theowners of rich flats are obliged immediately, under threat of
confiscation of all their property, to draw up in duplicate a statement
listing the articles of warm clothing they have and of those supplied by
them to the front, one copy of which is to be handed to the House
Committee, the other to the district Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’
Deputies.

Theowners of rich fiats, under similar threat, are obliged immediately
to submit in duplicate to the same institutions a statement to the effect
that they are vacating one of two rich fiats for the needs of the poor
population of the capital (that is, two rich families having two rich fiats
are obliged to move into one of their fiats during the winter, giving the
other up to the use of the poor population in view of the extreme need
created by the war).

Thehouse committees shall immediately draw up lists of rich flats
subject to requisition, and the district Soviets of Workers’ Deputies shall
endorse these lists and define the conditions and order in which families
of the poor population are to move into these

flats.[1]

[1]TheDraft Decree on the Requisition of Articles of Warm Clothing  for the Soldiers at the Front was discussed and approved at a meeting  of the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies on  November 8 (21), 1917. Lenin’s addenda in regard to the  requisitioning of articles of warm clothing were taken into  consideration in the final wording of the decree (see Pravda No. 184,  November 22 [9], 1917). On the question of “the requisition of  flats of the rich to relieve the needs of the poor”. Lenin’s  amendment formed the basis of a Draft Decree on Installing the  Families of Red Armymen and Unemployed Workers in the Flats  of the Bourgeoisie and on the Normalisation of Housing which  was approved at a meeting of the Petrograd Soviet on March 1, 1918 (seeIzvestiaNo. 38, March 2, 1918).